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BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$15,000 * New Mexico
In 2009, the New Mexico Tourism Department launched a Web site with maps and tours highlighting what Wild West figure?

A: Billy the Kid B: Daniel Boone
C: Wyatt Earp D: Davy Crockett

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25,000 * Great Professors
Made into an inspirational book and popular YouTube video, "The Last Lecture" was given by Randy Pausch, a professor at what university?

A: Univ. of Washington B: Carnegie Mellon
C: Vanderbilt D: UCLA

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$15,000 * New Mexico
In 2009, the New Mexico Tourism Department launched a Web site with maps and tours highlighting what Wild West figure?

A: Billy the Kid B: Daniel Boone
C: Wyatt Earp D: Davy Crockett

For sure, it's not Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett. DD on the other two.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $12,500 * Medical Terminology
Although logorrhea is a serious medical condition, the term is also used to describe someone who has what problem?

A: Walks very slowly B: Talks too much
C: Smells badly D: Is frequently late

TheConfessor wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $12,500 * Medical Terminology
Although logorrhea is a serious medical condition, the term is also used to describe someone who has what problem?

A: Walks very slowly B: Talks too much
C: Smells badly D: Is frequently late

I wonder if the writers understood the difference between smelling bad and smelling badly. I suspect they meant the former, but we'll never know. Smelling badly would be called "anosmia."

TheConfessor wrote:

BBTranscriptTeam wrote: $12,500 * Medical Terminology
Although logorrhea is a serious medical condition, the term is also used to describe someone who has what problem?

A: Walks very slowly B: Talks too much
C: Smells badly D: Is frequently late

I wonder if the writers understood the difference between smelling bad and smelling badly. I suspect they meant the former, but we'll never know. Smelling badly would be called "anosmia."

ghostjmf wrote:15K: Know it isn't Boone or Crockett, pretty sure it isn't Earp, as he died in AZ. Am distracted by Kit Carson showing up as a pretty major character in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop". But Carson isn't a choice. Go with Billy, hold breath.

25K: About 98% sure its Carnegie Mellon, but ATA anyway.

50K: No blinking idea. Pretty sure, back then, it wouldn't have been a mullah or a Buddhist monk; could double dip, but still have PAF, so use it.

ulysses5019 wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:15K: Know it isn't Boone or Crockett, pretty sure it isn't Earp, as he died in AZ. Am distracted by Kit Carson showing up as a pretty major character in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop". But Carson isn't a choice. Go with Billy, hold breath.

25K: About 98% sure its Carnegie Mellon, but ATA anyway.

50K: No blinking idea. Pretty sure, back then, it wouldn't have been a mullah or a Buddhist monk; could double dip, but still have PAF, so use it.

I think Wyatt Earp died a peaceful death here in Los Angeles and is buried up near San Francisco.

ulysses5019 wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:15K: Know it isn't Boone or Crockett, pretty sure it isn't Earp, as he died in AZ. Am distracted by Kit Carson showing up as a pretty major character in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop". But Carson isn't a choice. Go with Billy, hold breath.

25K: About 98% sure its Carnegie Mellon, but ATA anyway.

50K: No blinking idea. Pretty sure, back then, it wouldn't have been a mullah or a Buddhist monk; could double dip, but still have PAF, so use it.

I think Wyatt Earp died a peaceful death here in Los Angeles and is buried up near San Francisco.

ghostjmf wrote:Well, then I would have made the right choice for one of the wrong reasons. Except I thought BTK died in NM; I don't think he was born there. And in that I'm influenced by Steve Tilson's song "Slip Jigs and Reels", which has him an Irish immigrant, & which may have been wholly made up for all I know.

Bob Juch wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:Well, then I would have made the right choice for one of the wrong reasons. Except I thought BTK died in NM; I don't think he was born there. And in that I'm influenced by Steve Tilson's song "Slip Jigs and Reels", which has him an Irish immigrant, & which may have been wholly made up for all I know.

BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:Well, then I would have made the right choice for one of the wrong reasons. Except I thought BTK died in NM; I don't think he was born there. And in that I'm influenced by Steve Tilson's song "Slip Jigs and Reels", which has him an Irish immigrant, & which may have been wholly made up for all I know.

BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

tanstaafl2 wrote:

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

Bob Juch wrote: BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

Although born an American originally in NYC William "Billy the Kid" McCarty was the son of Irish immigrants.

We can be a testy lot, especially if we have had too many Jose Cuervo cookies...

ARTIST: Steve Tilston
TITLE: Slip Jigs and Reels
Lyrics and Chords

[Capo 2]


He was barely a man in his grandfather's coat
Sewn into the lining, a ten-shilling note
Goodbye to the family, goodbye to the shore
Till I taste good fortune, you'll see me no more

/ D A D G / D G A D / : / DDA DDG DDA DDG /

The boat on the ocean tossed like a cork
Then one fine morning they sighted New York
And he stood on the gangplank and breathed in the air
"Hello land of plenty, I've come for my share"

{Refrain}
And he did like the ladies, the rise and the fall
Of their ankles and dresses, down on the dance floor
And rolling the dice and spinning the wheels
But he took most delight in the slip jigs and reels

/ DDA DDG DDA DDG / / DDA DDG D G - - - / 1st /

There's talk a pistol and some say a knife
But all are agreed there was somebody's wife
Some kind of commotion, a terrible fight
He left a man dead and ran into the night

A train to St. Louis, just one jump ahead
He slept one eye open, a six-gun in bed
And he dreamt of the mountains and green fields of home
While crossing the plains where the buffalo roam

{Refrain}

Oh, bad reputation's a hard thing to bear
Mothers pour scorn and young children they stare
But he found consolation in flash company
Your life ain't so bad with a girl on your knee

Oh, they called him the Kid, and by twenty-one
All that he knew was the power of the gun
And by twenty-three, he'd shot five men down
Who got in his way as he rambled around

{Refrain}

There's bones in the desert and buzzards that fly
In the highest of circles, just wishing he'd die
But in matters of cruelty, it must be said
A landlord will pick your bones before you're dead

It was wild mescaleros, I heard people say
In the deadliest ambush near old Santa Fe
And a young buck was taken dressed in a coat
And inside the lining, a ten-shilling note

ghostjmf wrote:The power of song, or how I was mislead (if indeed I was mislead)

Definitely has him an immigrant, & who would argue with this???!

ARTIST: Steve Tilston
TITLE: Slip Jigs and Reels
Lyrics and Chords

[Capo 2]


He was barely a man in his grandfather's coat
Sewn into the lining, a ten-shilling note
Goodbye to the family, goodbye to the shore
Till I taste good fortune, you'll see me no more

/ D A D G / D G A D / : / DDA DDG DDA DDG /

The boat on the ocean tossed like a cork
Then one fine morning they sighted New York
And he stood on the gangplank and breathed in the air
"Hello land of plenty, I've come for my share"

{Refrain}
And he did like the ladies, the rise and the fall
Of their ankles and dresses, down on the dance floor
And rolling the dice and spinning the wheels
But he took most delight in the slip jigs and reels

/ DDA DDG DDA DDG / / DDA DDG D G - - - / 1st /

There's talk a pistol and some say a knife
But all are agreed there was somebody's wife
Some kind of commotion, a terrible fight
He left a man dead and ran into the night

A train to St. Louis, just one jump ahead
He slept one eye open, a six-gun in bed
And he dreamt of the mountains and green fields of home
While crossing the plains where the buffalo roam

{Refrain}

Oh, bad reputation's a hard thing to bear
Mothers pour scorn and young children they stare
But he found consolation in flash company
Your life ain't so bad with a girl on your knee

Oh, they called him the Kid, and by twenty-one
All that he knew was the power of the gun
And by twenty-three, he'd shot five men down
Who got in his way as he rambled around

{Refrain}

There's bones in the desert and buzzards that fly
In the highest of circles, just wishing he'd die
But in matters of cruelty, it must be said
A landlord will pick your bones before you're dead

It was wild mescaleros, I heard people say
In the deadliest ambush near old Santa Fe
And a young buck was taken dressed in a coat
And inside the lining, a ten-shilling note

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:Well, then I would have made the right choice for one of the wrong reasons. Except I thought BTK died in NM; I don't think he was born there. And in that I'm influenced by Steve Tilson's song "Slip Jigs and Reels", which has him an Irish immigrant, & which may have been wholly made up for all I know.

BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

TheConfessor wrote:

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

Bob Juch wrote: BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

The legend about shooting a man for snoring that was used to sell Time-Life books was not about Billy The Kid. The commercials attributed it to John Wesley Hardin.

TheConfessor wrote:

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

Bob Juch wrote: BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

The legend about shooting a man for snoring that was used to sell Time-Life books was not about Billy The Kid. The commercials attributed it to John Wesley Hardin.

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

TheConfessor wrote:

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote: And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

The legend about shooting a man for snoring that was used to sell Time-Life books was not about Billy The Kid. The commercials attributed it to John Wesley Hardin.

There you go ruining my good story with your "facts." BTK makes it more interesting, like Regis on SyndiBAM.

frogman042 wrote:

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:

TheConfessor wrote: The legend about shooting a man for snoring that was used to sell Time-Life books was not about Billy The Kid. The commercials attributed it to John Wesley Hardin.

There you go ruining my good story with your "facts." BTK makes it more interesting, like Regis on SyndiBAM.

Well, I once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

But after pulling the trigger, my chewing gum ran out of flavor and he died while I was trying to find another stick of gum, so I missed it. Guess I should have been chewing Extra....

Bob Juch wrote:

frogman042 wrote:

Phil Ken Sebbin wrote:
There you go ruining my good story with your "facts." BTK makes it more interesting, like Regis on SyndiBAM.

Well, I once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

But after pulling the trigger, my chewing gum ran out of flavor and he died while I was trying to find another stick of gum, so I missed it. Guess I should have been chewing Extra....

If you shot a man in Reno, why were you in a California prison?

silvercamaro wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

frogman042 wrote: Well, I once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

But after pulling the trigger, my chewing gum ran out of flavor and he died while I was trying to find another stick of gum, so I missed it. Guess I should have been chewing Extra....

If you shot a man in Reno, why were you in a California prison?

He wanted to go back east.